Joseph W. Chalmers

Joseph Williams Chalmers (20 December 1806-16 June 1853) was a US Senator from Mississippi (D) from 3 November 1845 to 4 March 1847, succeeding Robert J. Walker and preceding Henry S. Foote.

Biography
Joseph Williams Chalmers was born in Halifax County, Virginia in 1806, and he moved to Jackson, Tennessee in 1835 and to Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1839. He followed the rapid expansion of the cotton industry in the American South, and he served in the US Senate from 1845 to 1847, finishing Robert J. Walker's term. He died in 1853, and his son James Ronald Chalmers later became a politician.